Moon of Alabama:

     January 06, 2017
     New Intelligence Report Adds No Evidence Of "Russian Hacking"
     (Updated)
     UPDATE: Up to today there is no public evidence that Russia hacked
     the Democratic National Council and/or released DNC material to
     Wikileaks. After today's new intelligence report (pdf) there is
     still no such evidence. (One third of the report is dedicated to
     criticize the Russian government's TV outlet Russia Today for
     criticizing Hillary Clinton. The RT viewer numbers claimed in the
     report are evidently false from 2012 and thereby completely
     irrelevant.) There are rather wild assertions and a lot of
     conjecture but zero facts that could be accepted as proof.

     End-update
     When Hillary Clinton was defeated in the U.S. presidential election
     the relevant powers launched a campaign to delegitimize the
     President elect Donald Trump.
     The ultimate aim of the cabal is to kick him out of office and have
     a reliable replacement, like the Vice-President elect Pence, take
     over. Should that not be possible it is hoped that the
     delegitimization will make it impossible for Trump to change major
     policy trajectories especially in foreign policy. A main issue here
     is the reorientation of the U.S. military complex and its NATO
     proxies from the war of terror towards a direct confrontation with
     main powers like Russia and China.
     The cabal consists of President Obama, the defeated candidate
     Hillary Clinton, neoconservatves like the State Department's cookie
     dispenser Victoria Nuland, the Republican senators McCain and
     Lindsay and the military-industrial complex. (One of the few neocons
     planted near to Trump, former CIA director James Woolsey, threw the
     towel today and left the Trump transition team.)
     A major role in directing the plot has fallen to Obama's consigliere
     John Brennan, the current director of the CIA. Another role has been
     delegated to the various military and NATO think tanks like the
     Atlantic Council and the British RUSI and reliable proxies within
     the media.
     The current emphasis of the campaign is on the release of emails and
     papers from the Clinton campaign through Wikileaks. It is alleged
     that some releases were gained through hacking, planned and executed
     by the Russian government. Trump had announced that he plans to seek
     good relations with Russia, the power that the cabal had earlier
     chosen as the new enemy de jour.
     But there is a problem. There is no real evidence that a "hack" ever
     happened. There is no evidence that Russia is involved. None at all.

   Analysis follows with lottsa links all over the page to pertinent
   dox... It IS interesting to note that one of the links leads to a
   little tidbit about how wrong Crowdstrike, the 'cyber-something' the
   FBI and DNC both apparently had a 'go-to' relationship with about the
   Russian non-hacks was totally wrong with another analysis they had done
   regarding a Russian hack on... wait for it... Ukraine iOT artillery.

   ..and the fact that Crowdstrike's founder/cto is Atlantic Council
   Senior Fellow Dmitri Alperovitch. The Atlantic Council is a NATO lobby
   repping Gulf governments, and defense industry companies
   [1]http://www.moonofalabama.org/2017/01/new-intelligence-report-adds-no
   -evidence-of-russian-hacking.html

References

   1. http://www.moonofalabama.org/2017/01/new-intelligence-report-adds-no-evidence-of-russian-hacking.html